When I think of those East End lights, muggy nights
  The curtains drawn in the little room downstairs
  Prima Donna lord you really should have been there
  Sitting like a princess perched in her electric chair
  And it's one more beer and I don't hear you anymore
  We've all gone crazy lately
  My friends out there rolling round the basement floor
    And someone saved my life tonight sugar bear
  You almost had your hooks in me didn't you dear
  You nearly had me roped and tied
  Altar-bound, hypnotized
  Sweet freedom whispered in my ear
  You're a butterfly
  And butterflies are free to fly
  Fly away, high away, bye bye
    I never realized the passing hours of evening showers
  A slip noose hanging in my darkest dreams
  I'm strangled by your haunted social scene
  Just a pawn out-played by a dominating queen
  It's four o'clock in the morning
  Damn it listen to me good
  I'm sleeping with myself tonight
  Saved in time, thank God my music's still alive
    And I would have walked head on into the deep end of the river
  Clinging to your stocks and bonds
  Paying your H.P. demands forever
  They're coming in the morning with a truck to take me home
  Someone saved my life tonight, someone saved my life tonight
  Someone saved my life tonight, someone saved my life tonight
  Someone saved my life tonight
  So save your strength and run the field you play alone